A crucial challenge for progressives is to counter the underlying conditions that cause the collective consciousness to incorporate elements of fascist politics
Henry A. Giroux
Interview on the events of Jan 6th, the destruction of public education and degeneration of mass culture
Trumpism is a worldview that defines culture as a battleground of losers and winners, a world in which everything is rigged against whites
Such violence has a long history in the U.S. and has been normalized under the aegis of Trumpism as a right-wing populist movement
A Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday
The COVID-19 crisis has amplified a surrealist hallucination that floods our screens and media with images of fear, trepidation, and dread
In the end, there is no democracy without informed citizens and no justice without a language critical of injustice
Americans can survive Trump — and even a second term of Trump — if they resurrect a language of critique and possibility, and develop a mass movement that draws from history and provides the economic, cultural and political conditions to lift the U.S. out of the present-day socio-political morass
As the presidential election gets closer, Trump is desperate to reassert his white supremacist and white nationalist views, even though they’ve never been hidden during his presidency.
Trump is doing more than using racist appeals to sway white suburban voters — he is establishing the conditions for a fascist state.